Why Mamdanism Will Not Win Colorado
By Booker Lightman | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the New York City mayoral election has sparked excitement on the far left and dread on the right. Will Mamdani herald a new age of far-Left ascendancy? Fortunately for Republicans, his victory was contingent on factors specific to New York City that are not present in the rest of the country.
Mamdani’s voters were not scattered randomly throughout New York City. They were heavily concentrated in what political analyst Michael Lange calls the “commie corridor,” an area of Northern Brooklyn and Western Queens populated by a peculiar demographic - young, non-black, college-educated, middle-income, often without children, and often employed in the nonprofit sector.
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